Karl Schapper

Karl Schapper (30 December 1812-28 April 1870) was a German politician and a co-founder of the Communist League alongside Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Biography
Karl Schapper was born on 30 December 1812 in Weinbach, Bavaria to a Catholic family. He joined a radical student fraternity while studying foresting, and he joined the Young Germany intellectual movement. Schappe went into exile in Switzerland, only to be deported in 1836 for his nationalist teachings. In 1847, Schapper would co-found the leftist Communist League with fellow German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but he would form a rivalry with Marx and Engels, who developed their own ideology with the publication of The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Schapper became an official in the International Workingmen's Association, and he died in 1870.